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Bus driver saves unconscious man who overdosed in stopped vehicle

The driver was revived with Narcan and arrested when he regained conscious

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Updated: 1:42 PM CDT Mar 24, 2017

Bus driver saves unconscious man who overdosed in stopped vehicle

The driver was revived with Narcan and arrested when he regained conscious

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Updated: 1:42 PM CDT Mar 24, 2017

A Milwaukee County Transit System driver and her trainee on Thursday helped save a man they found slumped over in a car that was stopped in the middle of a street on the city's southwest side, a statement from the transit agency said.

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Jeannie Mitchell was instructing new driver Precious Bolden when they came upon the stalled vehicle near South 35th Street and West Lincoln Avenue.

"He's leaned over or something," Bolden said as she pulled over.

She stayed on the bus while Mitchell jumped out and checked on the driver, who was found to be unconscious and barely breathing.

"He's slumped over and I had to put the car in park and turn it off," Mitchell explained to the passengers when she came back on the bus. Bolden used the bus' radio to call dispatch and request medical help.

The paramedics who responded revived the man with Narcan. He was arrested after he regained consciousness.

The episode is at least the third time an MCTS driver has potentially saved lives in recent months. In January, a driver found a boy wandering without shoes in the middle of a cold night and got him to safety. Another driver last October helped two small children after they wandered away from their babysitter.